Decommissioned missile silos and Cold War bunkers still sit under the American landscape, and this 2022 documentary goes looking for the men who now call them home.
What is Bunker about?
Bunker follows the small, strange industry that has grown up around abandoned military shelters: builders who convert old silos into livable homes, buyers chasing safety or solitude, and the brokers who connect them. Director Adrian Langley moves between construction sites and finished bunkers, letting the men who choose this life explain what draws them underground, from fear of collapse to a simple wish for quiet. The film treats its subjects without mockery, tracking how a hole in the ground becomes a house, a shelter, and sometimes a whole way of seeing the world.
About the cast
The documentary is built around the people who inhabit this world rather than a single lead, with Roger Clark, Luke Baines, Sean Cullen, Julian Feder, Kayla Jenee Radomski, Eddie Ramos, Kevin Tanski and Patrick Moltane appearing across its runtime as builders, buyers and observers of the bunker trade.
Context & significance
Underground living sits at the edge of American prepper culture, a subject documentaries keep returning to because it says something about anxiety, self-reliance and money all at once. Bunker leans into that tension rather than resolving it, showing how the same structure can read as paranoia to one buyer and as peace of mind to another. At 92 minutes, it stays close to its subjects instead of widening into a broader survey of doomsday culture, which keeps the film grounded even when its subject matter drifts toward the apocalyptic.
Watching Bunker on Ktime
Bunker streams on K-Time with a Farsi dub and Farsi subtitles, both included for any signed-in account, so Persian-speaking viewers can follow the film in the language they're most comfortable with. The page itself is free to browse without logging in; watching the film requires only a K-Time account, no separate purchase beyond a paid subscription.